Dowbrigade

Early this morning we read a very interesting Op-ed article by Paul
Krugman which opened with the following rather stark and striking paragraph:

Modern American politics is dominated by the doctrine that government
is the problem, not the solution. In […]

One of our earliest inspirations in this blogging business was Chris
Lydon, who bounced back from getting shafted by WBUR by becoming a force
in the New Media, and the effort to break the major media monopoly on
[…]

Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each
and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found
dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He
died after […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Actress and activist Jane Fonda
says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end
to U.S. military operations in Iraq
[…]

Sony
BMG, the world’s second-biggest record label, has agreed to pay $10m
and stop paying radio station employees
to play its artists’ songs
The settlement follows an investigation into […]

Hiawatha
Bray, technology columnist for the Boston Globe, has been covering the
Spam Wars for quite some time now:
"A couple of years ago, this column featured the prediction
that the junk e-mail problem […]